Word: freemen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kaczynski '62 was discovered in Montana by police and tentatively identified as the Unabomber, there has been a craze over this elusive character--especially here at Harvard, the place the Unabomber called home for four years. In the state the Unabomber has more recently called home, the Montana Freemen are causing a craze among the 1,400 backwoods people who feed and clothe FBI agents...
These "threats" share some similar characteristics with the Montana Freemen. Certain prominent and outspoken blacks, women and people of differing sexual orientation suffer from FBI monitoring. They were and are considered "threats" to America somehow, and are subsequently given the same treatment as anti-government buffoons in Montana...
...Unabomber represent activism today despite the negative associations that are pressed on activism. Give activism a better face because activism could only lead to a better America. Let America's majority and activists at Harvard representing America's majority be free from even distant associations with so-called "Freemen" in the backwoods of Montana...
...Freemen drama confirms this point, but from another angle. Not content to live and let live in the peaceable Montana way, this band of alleged counterfeiters and tax cheats busied itself placing bounties on neighbors. No wonder the locals were set to raid the place before the FBI stepped in. In Montana, screwing the government is your affair, but no one likes a busybody...
Maybe that's why, for the state's inhabitants, the most disturbing feature of recent events is the national media attention. It's the looniest spectacle of all. On the day of Kaczynski's arraignment, as the Freemen opened negotiations with lawmen, I was driving cross-country from New York. By the ominous tones of the radio talk jocks broadcasting from their coastal outposts, I half expected bands of crazed militiamen to stop me at the border. After demanding a password (Justus), they'd search my car for treasonous articles: heavy-metal or rap tapes, condoms, crack, high school textbooks...